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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/03/25/spectator-adhd-hitler/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecanary.co/opinion/2025/03/2</span><span class="invisible">5/spectator-adhd-hitler/</span></a> </p><p>Canary 🐤 </p><p>The Spectator just committed the most disgusting <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/hatecrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hatecrime</span></a> against <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> </p><p>by <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RachelCharltonDalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelCharltonDalley</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o0yD5gNQY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o0yD5gNQ</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PoliticsJoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticsJoe</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> explain the real cost of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LIEBour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LIEBour</span></a>'s <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/welfarecuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfarecuts</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TricommissionStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TricommissionStarmer</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/KeirtStalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeirtStalin</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RedTories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedTories</span></a> <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RachelTHIEVES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelTHIEVES</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inequality</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> </p><p>The Labour Party HATES Humans</p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-social-security-elon-musk-trump-closures-benefits" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/doge-so</span><span class="invisible">cial-security-elon-musk-trump-closures-benefits</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ProPublica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProPublica</span></a> 22 Feb 2025 </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DOGEHitlerYouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGEHitlerYouth</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5202848-social-security-in-office-visits/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/homenews/administr</span><span class="invisible">ation/5202848-social-security-in-office-visits/</span></a> </p><p>Requiring people to show up to <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSI</span></a> offices starting 31 March 2025, won't work for many disabled and seniors, esp. since many offices are CLOSING! </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/USAFascistShitShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAFascistShitShow</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FIGHTBACK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIGHTBACK</span></a> </p><p>Where are the protests to stop <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>, Trump nd <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AdolphMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdolphMusk</span></a> from interfering with <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a>? </p><p>Don't American activists have <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seniors</span></a> or <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/disabledpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabledpeople</span></a> in their lives?</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>And if <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> gets his way...</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years</p><p>by Carolyn Atkinson and Ben Robinson, March 4, 2025</p><p>"An autistic woman with a learning disability was wrongly locked up in a mental health hospital for 45 years, starting when she was just seven years old, the BBC has learned.</p><p>"The woman, who is believed to be originally from Sierra Leone, and who was given the name Kasibba by the local authority to protect her identity, was also held on her own in long-term segregation for 25 years.</p><p>"Kasibba is non-verbal and had no family to speak up for her. A clinical psychologist told File on 4 Investigates how she had begun a nine-year battle to release her.</p><p>"The Department of Health and Social Care told the BBC it was unacceptable that so many disabled people were still being held in mental health hospitals and said it hoped reforms to the Mental Health Act would prevent inappropriate detention."</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly43png991o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly43p</span><span class="invisible">ng991o</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AutisticRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedSterilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedSterilization</span></a> is a worldwide problem!</p><p>As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> starts compensation payments, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedSterilisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedSterilisation</span></a> continues around the world</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonConsensual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonConsensual</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sterilisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sterilisation</span></a> of those considered genetically inferior persists in some parts of the world today </p><p>by Ewan Bolton, 18 February 2025 </p><p>"Just last week, in the Miyagi prefecture of Japan, the local governor met victims of an official eugenics policy to apologise for the suffering they underwent.</p><p>"'On behalf of the prefecture, I would like to offer my heartfelt apologies for the immense suffering caused to the 900 (victims),' said Murai Yoshihiro while lowering his head.</p><p>"For many, the words 'forced sterilisation' bring to mind <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaziGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziGermany</span></a> and the devastating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenic</span></a> policies pursued by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> regimes in the 1930s and 1940s. But the non-consensual sterilisation of those considered genetically inferior continued through the 20th century and persists in some parts of the world today. </p><p>"In January, victims of Japan’s forced sterilisation programme were finally able to apply for compensation for the first time. Between 1948 and 1996, at least 16,500 people were forcibly sterilised in Japan under the country’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EugenicProtectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EugenicProtectionLaw</span></a>. Nearly 60,000 more underwent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abortions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortions</span></a> without, or with only dubious consent. Most were mentally handicapped people or those with hereditary diseases.</p><p>"As Japan finally addresses this legacy, victims of forced sterilisation in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peru</span></a> are still fighting for compensation after 370,000 people were sterilised in what the UN has described as a potential crime against humanity. And in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> and parts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, non-consensual sterilisations continue to this day. </p><p>"As with the Nazis, almost all cases can be traced back to the discredited <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PseudoScience</span></a> of eugenics which was developed in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> at around the turn of the last century and had many supporters, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WinstonChurchill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinstonChurchill</span></a>. </p><p>"Japan’s Eugenic Protection Law was introduced in the wake of World War II. It granted medical institutions the right to administer sterilisations and abortions without the consent of patients. Of the 25,000 people sterilised under the programme, according to government figures only 8,000 gave consent. The legitimacy of the consent in these cases is disputed. </p><p>"A large number of the victims were children, some as young as nine years old. In Miyagi prefecture, in the northwest of the main island, more than half of the 859 sterilised between 1963 and 1981 were under the age of 18. </p><p>"At a press conference last month in Hyogo prefecture, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeafWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeafWoman</span></a>, now in her 80s, described the emotional pain of being given an abortion without her consent. 'I was taken to the hospital, and I thought I would be going to the general medicine department. I was very surprised because I was taken to the gynaecology department … I am unable to forget what happened at that time'.</p><p>"In her prefecture alone, there are '14 or 15 other [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeafPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeafPeople</span></a>] who suffered harm' that are known about, 'but there are undoubtedly more', said Yoshimichi Hongo, chairman of the Hyogo Prefecture Association for the Deaf."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/as-japan-starts-compensation-payments-forced-sterilisation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">telegraph.co.uk/global-health/</span><span class="invisible">women-and-girls/as-japan-starts-compensation-payments-forced-sterilisation/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reproductiverights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reproductiverights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BodilyAutomony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodilyAutomony</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReproductiveAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReproductiveAutonomy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sterilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sterilization</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedSterilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedSterilization</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> Isn’t a Relic of the Past </p><p>In a majority of states, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a>-era laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients against their will.</p><p>by Julia Métraux<br>February 27, 2025</p><p>"'In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,' Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v. Bell, the state could—and should—'prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.' Forced sterilization, the court held, was not only legal but laudable.</p><p>"In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed 'feebleminded' on the grounds of 'promiscuous' behavior. In reality, Buck was raped by her foster family’s nephew. Three years later, with the Court’s blessing, Virginia’s 'State Colony of Epileptics and Feeble Minded' sterilized Buck against her will. The decision, passed at the height of the 20th-century eugenics movement, has never been overturned.</p><p>"'There’s a very different standard being applied to disabled people’s autonomy.'</p><p>"To this day, 31 states and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a>, still have laws on the books that allow for the practice—and just two, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a>, have laws that fully ban the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonconsensual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonconsensual</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sterilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sterilization</span></a> of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center. There’s no official account of just how many disabled people have been sterilized under those laws.</p><p>"Some of these laws aren’t even that old. In 2019, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iowa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iowa</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> passed new forced sterilization laws that applied to people under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/guardianship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guardianship</span></a>. Both bills passed unanimously, and the end result is consistent with laws on the books in other states. There was no discourse among politicians—let alone objections—about the ethics of sterilizing disabled people without their consent.</p><p>"Sterilization and Social Justice Lab co-director and founder Alexandra Minna Stern said that early IQ tests, which sought to measure intelligence in part on the basis of class- and culture-based questions involving Beethoven’s sonatas, the early United States, and college athletics, were 'used to categorize people who would then be targeted for sterilization,' generally those who were '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marginalized</span></a> or maligned in some way': in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Southwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Southwest</span></a>, often <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MexicanAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanAmericans</span></a>; nationwide, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poorer</span></a> white Americans, particularly women. The people behind the tests, Stern says, were 'white, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elite</span></a> men who wanted to create a certain type of society in their own image.'</p><p>"NWLC senior counsel for health equity and justice Ma’ayan Anafi, who is also disabled, told Mother Jones that “forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.”</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/forced-sterilization-eugenics-scotus-state-laws/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">02/forced-sterilization-eugenics-scotus-state-laws/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reproductiverights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reproductiverights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BodilyAutomony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodilyAutomony</span></a></p>
Andreas Fornberg 👑<p>Nice initiative for eldery or disable people.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBdzFrkw31I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=dBdzFrkw31I</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/bicycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bicycle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/bicycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bicycling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cycling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/eldery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eldery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/disabledpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabledpeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/mobilityforall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mobilityforall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.helvetet.eu/tags/utrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>utrecht</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>After the <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPresidentialElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPresidentialElection</span></a>, this is what I wrote--I created a list of "What I know right now" as a way for myself to track both my own personal, moral compass and the likely eroding norms of the United States. It seems relevant to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> right now as well. Here is what I know:</p><p>1.) <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/PeopleWithDisabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleWithDisabilities</span></a> are inherently worthy as human beings. They deserve care and protection. How we treat <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> determines how we treat all of society. (And yes, that means <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> and you should <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WearAMask</span></a>.) </p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pandemic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Fasicsm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fasicsm</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Leftism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leftism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hope</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compassion</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Shellshocked, attacked, left to die – this is the reality for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>.</p><p>When evacuation orders were issued in the north, initially in October last year, many <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PeopleWithDisabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleWithDisabilities</span></a> could not flee – and their families refused to leave them behind. Those who could escape were packed like luggage into cars, carts or minibuses. Assistance devices, such as wheelchairs, canes, crutches and medical equipment often had to be left behind. Hearing aids, eyeglasses, adaptive toilet seats and incontinence pads were destroyed or lost.</p><p>Most <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AssistiveDevices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistiveDevices</span></a> are not being included in the minimal <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HumanitarianAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianAid</span></a> coming into Gaza. The Israelis have declared certain spare parts and batteries for these devices dangerous, so-called dual use items – saying they could be used for military purposes. Without wheelchairs, canes, walkers, splints and prosthetics, people with disabilities are struggling to survive, left isolated, with no independence or sense of autonomy or dignity. There is no liquid food or <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DisabilityInclusive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityInclusive</span></a> feeding equipment, like feeding tubes or adaptive utensils. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/psychological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychological</span></a> torture of feeling like a burden is <a href="https://beige.party/tags/unbearable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unbearable</span></a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/degrading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degrading</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/disabled-people-gaza-cerebral-palsy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amp.theguardian.com/commentisf</span><span class="invisible">ree/article/2024/jul/19/disabled-people-gaza-cerebral-palsy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OccupationIsNotFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OccupationIsNotFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FreeGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeGaza</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IsraelWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IsraelIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelIsATerroristState</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PalestinianLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestinianLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BoycottIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoycottIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BDSMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BDSMovement</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BoycottIsraeliApartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoycottIsraeliApartheid</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DefundIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefundIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OstracizeIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OstracizeIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanitarian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p>My friend sent a text, and he...is...cross as fuck!😡 </p><p>Let me tell able-bodied people what a <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/disabledqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabledqueer</span></a> :heart_pan: :anqueer_flag: friend of mine told me, after his last shopping trip.</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DisabledPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledPeople</span></a> are capable of thinking and doing for themselves. If they need our help, they will ask for it. </p><p>It is ableist to assume that anyone walking with a cane and wearing a mask is elderly, (when, in this case, this man is 29 years old and disabled after a <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/gaybashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaybashing</span></a>). </p><p>Whether someone is elderly or a young disabled person or an elderly disabled person, don't create a narrative about who and what they are. </p><p>Do not assume they are 'feeble'.</p><p>Don't speak in a condescending tone. They are not children!</p><p>How DARE anyone wince at the sight of a physically disabled person.</p>